Basket



' July 6, 1926.

BASKET 4 Filed May 28, 2

c. H. PRINTZ WITNESS:

PatentedJuly 'G; I i V i I u l En sTArEs' PATENT OFFICE.

.. CHARLES H. rianvzrz, or LURAY, VIRGINIA.

' BASKET.

Application filed ivra izs, 1924. Serial no. 716,468. r

g It is the purpose of this invention to pro- 14. Each-side of the handle is "formed with vide a wire basket primarily designed to rea coil, 15 which receives the upper ring 11; ceive and display fruit in store, Windows of the basket .at diametrically opposite and the "like, and contemplates a basketf'points, these coils being formed at approequipped with a handle whichcan be quickpriate points in'the length of said sides.

- lyand convenientlyattached to the basket Each side is extended .anappreciable dis- 5 in a manner to prevent casual separation of tance beneath the coil 15, and terminates to the handle therefrom, 'or movement of the} provide a hooklike extremity 16 adapted handle with relation to the basket. to receive the Stran s fw stitut ng The nature and advantages of the inventhe body 10 ofthe basket. By reason of I tion will be better understood when the folthis construction the handle cannot bec-asu- .lowing detailed description is readin conally. separated'br pulled fromthe basket, nection with the accompanying drawings, and is furthermore so associated with the the invention residing in the construction, basket that relativemovement of the handle combination and arrangement of parts as with relation to the, upper ring 11 is proclaimed. 7 p hibited. v .55" In the drawings forming part of this ap- While it is believed that'from the foregoplication, like numerals of reference indiing description, the nature and advantages 'cate similar parts in the several views, and of theinvention will be readily apparent, I h r in; desire to have it understood that I do not,

Figure 1 is a perspective view. I limit myself to'what is herein shown and de- '60 Figure 2 is a fragmentary sectional view scribed, and that such changes may be reshowing how one end of the handle is. sesorted to when desired as fall withinthe.

cured to the basket. p scope of what is claimed. 2 Referring to the drawing in detail, 10 What .I,.claim is: f v

represents the body of the basket which is Awirebasket including spaced upper and adapted to be constructed from Wire of any lower rings, a bail like handle including T suitable mesh. This wire' is secured to spaced parallelsides, coils formed in said spaced upper and lower rings 11 and 12 sides at an appropriate point inv their length I 3 respectively which are also formed from and arranged to surround the uppermost V 35 design without departing from the-spirit of. of the basket at points adjacent said ring single lengths of wire and terminally conring of the basket at directly opposite points, nected together as at 13. It might here be saidcoils beingextended downwardly along stated that the basket can'be constructed in the sides of'the basket and terminating in i any suitable size, and also vary in shape orhooks adapted toengage the adjacent sides the invention. iThe basket is provided with for the purposespecified.

a handle formed from a single length of In testimony whereof I afiix' my signature.- wire, and of inverted U- hape formation as I I shown, the handle being herein indicated at f 1 l CHARLES H. PRINTZ. 

